Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Spacecraft Equipment: Clarification

Let’s get this straight. It might help if you read my proposal, actually READ it, before you vote on it.

I wrote “Remove all weapons and armor from the DDA Mothership. Afterwards, add a Heavy Rocket Array and Layered Titanium Hull to the DDA Mothership.” Somehow, you managed to infer the removal of the OXVI Thrusters, though it specifically states ‘weapons and amor’ and NOT propulsion.

And surely, if you disagreed with the removal of the old weapon (I think the Light Defense Laser does not fit the scale of the ship - but if we stacked it up…), that isn’t really justifcation for failing the whole proposal, given the fact any follow-up on the theme could have re-added any number of additional copies of weapons? We aren’t going to see any use of them anyway in the very near future, because space combat doesn’t fully exist yet, so how could another proposal hurt? A space combat proposal could switch out all the weaponry if it wanted to.

I’m impressed how apt you guys are in finding holes in my logic, compared to your ability to actually read what my logic is.

(I’d have loved to have posted this as a comment, but you’d closed up my proposal already.)

Comments

Amnistar: he/him

04-06-2008 02:18:21 UTC

*shrug* it happens.  I’ve had proposals fail because of a minor mistake that could have been fixed with another proposal.  It’s mostly because we don’t want to vote for a proposal that we don’t agree with, even if what we disagree with can be fixed, because we don’t agree with it.

That and you’d have gotten 10 xp :P